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Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 31, 1896
Died
September 1, 1977
Place of Birth
Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Also Known As
- Sweet Mama Stringbean
Ethel Waters
0.3 Popularity
Biography
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues, jazz and gospel vocalist and actress. She frequently performed jazz, big band, and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in the 1920s singing blues. Her best-known recordings includes, "Dinah", "Birmingham Bertha", "Stormy Weather" "Hottentot Potentate", and "Cabin in the Sky", as well as her version of the spiritual, "His Eye Is on the Sparrow". Waters was the second African American to be nominated for an Academy Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ethel Waters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
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Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
7.0
Self (archive footage)
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Blues Masters
1999
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Self (archive footage)
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
1989
6.9
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
1976
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
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Self (archive footage)
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
1975
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Self (archive footage)
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
1973
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Self
The Pearl Bailey Show
1971
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Self
The Barbara McNair Show
1969
Credits
Jazz Voice - The Ladies sing Jazz Vol.1
2006
0.0
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
as Self (archive footage)
2003
7.0
Blues Masters
as Self (archive footage)
1999
6.0
Wild Women Don't Have the Blues
as Self (archive footage)
1989
0.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
as Self (archive footage)
1975
5.7
Black Shadows on a Silver Screen
as Self (archive footage)
1975
0.0
The Men Who Made the Movies: Vincente Minnelli
as Self (archive footage)
1973
0.0
🎬
The Pearl Bailey Show
as Self
1971
0.0
🎬
The Barbara McNair Show
as Self
1969
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The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.7
Daniel Boone
as Rachael
1964
6.9
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
1964
4.5
The Great Adventure
as Rit
1963
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The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Route 66
1960
6.3
The Sound and the Fury
as Dilsey
1959
6.6
The Heart is a Rebel
as Gladys
1958
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🎬
Saturday Spectacular: Manhattan Tower
as Sunday School Teacher
1956
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Carib Gold
as Mom
1956
4.0
The Steve Allen Show
as Self - Singer
1956
5.6
🎬
Playwrights '56
1955
6.0
Climax!
as Aunt Kate
1954
3.3
General Electric Theater
as Mother
1953
6.3
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
1952
6.2
🎬
The Beulah Show
as Beulah
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
Pinky
as Dicey Johnson
1949
7.1
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
🎬
Soundies Festival
1945
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The Voice That Thrilled the World
as Self (segment 'On with the Show!') (archive footage)
1943
5.3
Stage Door Canteen
as Ethel Waters
1943
5.8
Cabin in the Sky
as Petunia Jackson
1943
6.5
Cairo
as Cleona Jones, Marcia's Maid
1942
5.8
Tales of Manhattan
as Esther
1942
6.3
Let My People Live
1939
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Gift of Gab
as Herself
1934
1.0
Bubbling Over
as Ethel Peabody
1934
3.7
Rufus Jones for President
as Mother of Rufus
1933
6.0
On With the Show!
as Ethel
1929
5.0